Post Office victims cowed by legal process The Sunday Telegraph reports that Post Office traumatised its victims so badly that nearly 40% are refusing to engage with opportunities for compensation and legal redress, officials fear.

Plans to reform private prosecutions after Post Office Horizon scandal buff.ly/3vJP2qM

Post Office minister wants Horizon scandal culprits jailed - Kevin Hollinrake says those behind wrongful prosecutions ‘must be held to account’ - Telegraph - buff.ly/4aW6Fnp

The inside story of two rape trials: ‘It’s as bad as I’ve ever known it’ | Rape and sexual assault | The Guardian buff.ly/48YXUqT

Quick justice system ‘pressures defendants to plead guilty’ buff.ly/422jQzr

Judge can continue fraud trial without jury, Court of Appeal rules | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Criminals gaming the justice system as cases jammed for years in court backlog buff.ly/4by45V6

The unreported anarchy of British courts - UnHerd buff.ly/3SEyqJc

MPs to grill Ministry of Justice officials on National Audit Office's damning legal aid report | Law Gazette buff.ly/489hSyp

Inspectors lay out CPS recruitment and retention difficulties - Legal Futures buff.ly/4bFlhrL

Minister: Magistrates can act on controversial Single Justice Procedure cases | Evening Standard buff.ly/3uJnfHe

A two-year delay in scheduling more than 180 rape trials is a “serious stain” on the criminal justice system, the senior presiding judge of England and Wales said yesterday. Lord Justice Edis plans to bring almost all of these cases to trial before the end of July.

National media editors unite in protest with a joint letter to Home Office PR Team – The Justice Gap buff.ly/3v5Ijrh

Crime News: Newly amended crime contract and guidance - GOV.UK buff.ly/4a5lTWd

Thompson v Crime Prosecution Service [2024] EWHC 470 (Admin) - case re statutory definition of a “zombie knife” in para 1(s) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) Order 1988 and whether a knife within the possession of the appellant fell within that definition.

The Youth Custody Service has published provisional data on the numbers of children and young adults in custody - The number of under 18s in custody for January 2024 was 397.

A worrying case - Man kept in prison when he should have been released / Kim, R (On the Application Of) v Governor of His Majesty's Prison Wandsworth [2024] EWHC 645 (Admin) (21 March 2024) buff.ly/4afSdG4

Prison treated solicitor with ‘institutional indifference’ buff.ly/3xdEX6A

Secret papers reveal Post Office knew its court defence was false - BBC News buff.ly/4abeCUZ

The cost of housing a convicted criminal in prison in England and Wales has exceeded £50,000 a year, surpassing the annual fees for a pupil at Eton College. The rising number of offenders being jailed has led to an annual bill of over £4bn for running prisons - The Telegraph.